Carriage-harness



(No Model.)

W. MULLOY.

CARRIAGE HARNESS.

No. 272,897. Patented Feb. 27, 1883 Fi/ yz.

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William ,flfu'llog, z @161 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MULLOY, OF GREAT FALLS, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CARRIAGE-HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,897, dated February 27, 1883.

Application filed November 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MULLOY, of Great Falls, in the county of Strafford, of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriage-Harness; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a. frontview, Fig. 2an edgeview, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a portion of a harness-breechingsnpporter provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

1t is well known that the breeching of a harness is usually sustained by supporters extending in opposite directions from the backstrap leading from the crupper to the middle of the harness.

In the drawings part of the strap that leads down from the said back-strap is shown at A as buckled to the part B, that carries a ring, U, from which two straps usually extend obliquely to the breeching. The said part B has fixed to it a buckle, a, and a loop, b,to receive the strap A.

It is well known that a. horse in switching his tail is.\-'ery liable to get some of the hairs thereof caught in or on the buckle, or between it and the strap, whereby the hairso caught will generally be either brokenoifor bcdetached from the tail. Myinventionis toprevent such catching and rupture of the hair, and for this purpose I provide the breechingesnpporter, or the buckle a and the strap A thereof, with a deflectingshield, D, as represented. This shield consists of a plate of metal or other suitable material, bent in manner as shown, and

provided with a loop, 11, to receive the strap, and also with a hook, 0, to enter a hole in the strap, the whole being constructed and arranged with the buckle and the strap, substantially in manner as represented. The shield, when in place over the buckle, covers the upper part thereof and that of the tongue 11 of such buckle, over which it is arched or curved, as shown. The book and the eye or hole 6 for reception of its curved part prevent the'shield from accidentally slipping upward on the strap. By bending the strap so as to throw the hook out ofit the shield will be free to he slid upward on the strap in order to free the strap, to be either disconnected from the buckle or connected therewith, as occasion may require. When a horse may switch his tail upon the strap the hair striking upon the shield will be deflected thereby and prevented from being caught upon the buckle, or between it and the strap.

I claim- 1. The combination of the deflecting-shield, substantially as described, consisting of the bent or arched plate and its loop and hook, with the harness-breeching supporter having its part A provided with an eye or hole, 0, to receive the said hook, all being arranged and to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The buckle deflecting-shield, consisting of the bentor arched plateand itsloop or hook, arranged as and for use substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM MULLOY.

Witnesses G. L. Loan, J. A. STIQKNEY. 

